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  • The Vengeance of Heaven (1913)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Vengeance of Heaven (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
Carl Dian, engaged to pretty Anne Halliday, deserts her almost on the eve of their wedding to run away with Grace, the village belle. This blow breaks the girl's heart and she dies, leaving her aged father vowing that before he, too, is ...See moreCarl Dian, engaged to pretty Anne Halliday, deserts her almost on the eve of their wedding to run away with Grace, the village belle. This blow breaks the girl's heart and she dies, leaving her aged father vowing that before he, too, is taken, he will avenge his daughter's death. He takes his revolver and follows Carl into the woods. He fires at the young man and the bullet whizzes by just over Carl's head. It lodges in a tree hardly five feet away. The exertion is too much for the old man and he dies. Sometime later, Carl, as landlord of some poor cottages, is about to eject a tenant who is unable to pay. This man has an ailing wife and for her sake pleads with Carl. Carl refuses; angry words follow, which are overheard by the servants and the tenant is ejected from Carl's home. Carl, while walking through his woods, axe in hand, decides to cut down an old tree; but the bark is tough and does not yield to his axe. He places a slick of dynamite in the trunk and the explosion fires the bullet in the tree straight to Carl's heart. Carl's body is found and the poor tenant arrested on suspicion. But a lawyer from New York, working on the ground of the supposed crime discovers what really happened. He arranges a demonstration and before judge and jury and townspeople he enacts again the tragedy of the exploded tree with its hidden bullet, showing how the vengeance of Heaven was satisfied at last. This, of course, clears the poor man, who is given a chance in life and his wife started on the road to recovery. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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St. Loup Wintrebert (story)
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Updated Mar 19, 1913
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Mar 19, 1913 (United States)

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